[GANONG ] BOUNDARIES OF NEW BRUNSWICK 387 
provinces, and throughout the controversy every effort was consistently 
made by the home authorities to effect this end. 
During the year following this letter there was much correspond- 
ence between Canada and New Brunswick as to the question of juris- 
diction over the timber lands of the St. Francis ; both provinces claimed 
them, thus making it evident that a settlement of the boundary must 
not be longer delayed. The next step was taken in August, 1845, when 
Sir Charles Metcalfe, the new Governor-General of Canada, wrote Gov- 
ernor Colebrooke that he had nominated an agent to meet with one from 
New Brunswick to mark out the boundary. Governor Colebrooke 
promptly nominated Hon. Thomas Baillie, Surveyor-General of New 
Brunswick, and directed him to proceed to the frontier to meet the com- 
missioner from Lower Canada. In a letter of Sept. 1, 1843, to Governor 
Metcalfe, Governor Colebrooke observes :— 
The failure of former attempts to define the boundary, leads me to appre- 
hend that the present will be equally unsuccessful, and that it will devolve 
upon Her Majesty’s Government to establish such a conventional line as 
will be best calculated for the interests of the two Provinces. (Northern 
Boundary, CXT). 
On Oct. 13, 1843, the Surveyor-General of New Brunswick, Hon. 
Thomas Baillie, made a report to Governor Colebrooke (Northern 
Boundary, CXI.) in which he states that he proceeded to the frontier, 
but the commissioner from Canada did not appear. Accordingly he 
went by Grand River and the Restigouche to the head of Bay Chaleurs, 
where he sought the beginning of the line of highlands mentioned in 
the documents establishing the boundary. The head of Bay Chaleurs 
he found marked out by nature near Mission Point, nearly opposite 
Campbellton, whence the line was to run northward around Lake Meta- 
pedia and thence westward along the watershed, as shown fully on the 
map accompanying his report (map No. 32). Mr. Baillie, like all 
other New Brunswickers up to his time, while holding to the old, and 
unquestionably valid claim of New Brunswick to a boundary along the 
St. Lawrence watershed, assumed the equally invalid right of New 
Brunswick to the ownership of the territory west of the north line. The 
Quebec view of the boundary shows at this time a modification of her 
earlier views. In a report of the committee of the executive council of 
Quebec of Oct. 12 (1843), it is thus clearly expressed :— 
The boundaries of New Brunswick, both to the North and to the West 
are well defined, being on one side the River Restigouche, and on the other 
the line between the British possessions and the United States of America. 
It is evident that these limits must be completed at the north west angle, 
either by a prolongation of the line due North of the Treaty of Washington, 
until it intersects the River Restigouche, as put on Mr. Bouchette’s Map, 
